#WHATS UR FAVORITE PART

[rottengurlz]

she’s like if the virgin mary smoked a pack of pall malls every day 🚬

[almondpiglet]

just fooling around at the speed of sound... found a cool brush to play with...

[eff-plays]

[ew-selfish-art]

DP x DC AU: Danny desperately wants to find the explosion guy. Tim is really good at covering his tracks... he didn't account for ghosts.

The explosions make it onto TV as purported terror activity and most people haven't heard of that part of the world much less ever given a second thought to care about it. The only real reason it gets reported on has something to do with the Justice League and... Danny knows too much.

He's been in training for Clockwork's court (which he's suspicious of- feels like kingly duty bullshit- but Danny is playing along out of curiosity for now) and he's learned a lot about how the living and non-living worlds collide. That means learning about CW's usual suspects- one of which just happened to have a ton of bases around the area Danny was seeing on the news.

It didn't take long for Danny to try to piece together that whoever blew up Nanda Parbat was trying to fuck with the League of Shadows, and was doing it successfully. Less green portals in the world the better, same goes for assassins. But it gets Danny thinking... Maybe he can employ similar tactics on the GIW Bases that keep spawning on the edges of Amity Park. It would at least set them back while he and his friends navigated the help line desk to request Justice League intervention. None of them can leave Amity Park, so outreach is going to have to be creative.

So Danny figures he'll just find the guy. Call up some ghosts who were there, or er, came from there and get a profile and track him down. But the ghosts keep saying it was The Detective. Annoying!

Danny goes full conspiracy theory, gets Tucker and Sam involved, and begrudgingly asks Wes Weston his thoughts.

He hadn't expected Wes to garble out a thirty minute presentation (that had 100 more slides left to go before he cut it off) about how Batman totally trained with a cult and so did his kids. Danny kind of rolled his eyes but... hey, new avenue of searching in the Infinite Realms at least.

The ghosts confirm that Bombs is for sure not Batman's MO- But maybe his second kid would know? The second kid was already brought back to life though, so no way to easily reach him... Danny starts to realize that this might be the work of a Robin now. Wasn't the red one known for solving cold cases? (Sam provides this information- its a social faux pas to not know hero gossip at Gotham Galas- everything she's learned is against her will).

It all comes to a head when Danny goes about the hard task of opening a portal for the guy to come through at just the right time, explain the infinite realms so he doesn't panic and then describe what the fuck was going on with the GIW. It takes months, just over a full year, of random (educated guesses) portal generating- Finally, Red Robin drops into the land of the dead.

"So, you're the guy I've got to talk to about explosions right?" Danny enthusiastically asks.

Tim thinks he's died and landed in the after life following 56 hours of being awake and plummeting off the side of a building into a Lazarus pool. Nothing makes sense about the kid in front of him.

"Yeah, I got a guy for munitions." Tim answers cooly.

"How do you feel about secretly sanctioned government operations that violate protected rights?"

"Gotta get rid of 'em some how. Need me to point you in the right direction?" This might as well be happening.

[ryllen]

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[flying-cat]

bakudekuers i've never read from the sidelines because my favorite flavor of bakudeku is normally canon compliant bakudeku. someone quote bait me into reading it

[frobby]

one of my favorite senarios to imagine to put yukio in is sending him 10 years into the future (with the exwires usually) and everyone from their class are like chill adults including himself working their boring ass exorcist job and hes trying to assert dominance over them as the teacher™ but they're all like bro why so serious?

[who-always-pays-their-taxes]

look,,, there comes a point in reading fanfiction,,, where you begin to just slowly lower what’s acceptable,,,, sure, this fic is currently using overdone tropes and also absolutely destroying the personality of one of my favs but i literally can’t find anything else i haven’t read!!! like, this fic is centered around my favs and the plots so good and yeah this character is kissing his adoptive father in the background and i don’t enjoy that-!!! but i just gotta ignore them bc my favs r over here-!!!!!

[its-all-papaya]

the hollow hereafter | landoscar | 6.4k

Lando thinks of Silverstone, of Austria, of Spain, of Imola, of 2023 and of Russia; of years in a car that he’d dragged bloody to the fringes, and of the unbearable ache of it all, ripped from depths he didn’t know he had left within him.

Then he slows down and watches Oscar pass. And from 2.14 seconds back, he watches Oscar win.

(Alternatively: Oscar Piastri wins the 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix, but does anybody win, really?)

[sukifoof]

i think im just gonna start blocking people that engage in flowey age discourse <3 im not in the fandom for petty drama about nothing im here for analysis and art and its really irritating to be looking for art and all there is is arguments. i love uty dearly but the sudden uptick in pointless arguments regarding floweys character is infuriating. why can't we talk about how well hes written and that hes an extremely good example of ptsd why must we argue. if u disagree with something block and move on dont act like children

[pondslime]

GORL.............we are popping the BIGGEST bottles 🍾🥂🎉

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

also dude im fucking terrified of dakota finding out about all this........ i think he is either going to feel just. so betrayed and horrified or alternately understand the horrific situation completely& Not freak the fuck out like will & vynce think he will. but like regardless... godddd. william must be just. bone deep terrified of having him find out or having to tell him.!!!! insane ghostkicksisms in my brain tonight!!!!!!

GODDD THE GHOSTKICKSISMS GO SO CRAZY I PROMISE. here in the final stretch of episodes. without spoiling anything just know that they get soooo much clingier. so much. clinging onto each other like their life depends on it. vyncent too. its all 3 of them. god. legally i cannot comment on any of your predictions but. i know youre gonna like what happens a lot. holy shit. lifechanging stuff

[morningsaidthemoon]

I can't recommend scavengers reign enough it is SO GOOD !!!!! I hope u watch :))

Hehehe !!! Yes I’ve been looking into it,,,,

[kylorengarbagedump]

Hi Anna, idk if you've noticed my furious liking of your "little bird" series, but yeah thats what ive been doing.

Binge reading it for the last 3 days and i think ill finish it tomorrow, if im lucky and patient and savour it, then the day after tomorrow and then i run out of luck and have to leave behind this story.

I just wanted you to know this work resonated with me so much, i can't begin to express.

Anna, i thought id read the peak of creativity and had been impacted enough, until i came across this, across y o u r work. Ive been literally screenshotting and marking my favourite lines and then creating a folder of them in my gallery.

I dont know you, but i love you. I truly do.

You're reflection and how You're interrwined in your work is enough for me to absolutely want to martyr myself for you.

I don't comment usually, especially not ones as long or detailed as this one, but you deserve this and every other unspoken emotion you've made me feel with your words.

People rarely use their words and voices as intelligently and beautifully as you have.

Please don't stop writing, not just for us, but for yourself. Words like these are a salvation.

You're a gift to us, as is your way with words.

I wish to be as talented as you one day.

Words aren't enough and neither is my brain capacity to truly express the way I absolutely a d o r e your work.

(I think hozier would love you.)

What the fuck this is literally the sweetest, most effusively kind thing I've received in a long long long time - thank you so so much for your extremely thoughtful and far far too generous words. I couldn't be more happy to know you've enjoyed Little Bird so much - it's something I really poured my heart into and loved writing and sharing. To know it has had the intended effect and that others enjoy it too is the greatest gift to me. Thank you <3

[compacflt]

I love your interpretation of Mav and Ice. I love how realistic they both feel because well, they're white men in the Navy starting in the 80s. What it does make me wonder about Carole? I know you don't write for her but your analysis of Top Gun itself just made me wonder about her. Like whether she was a traditional military wife or just kinda met Goose and fell into it. Did Goose's death and the period between his death and her's change anything? Did it make her more skeptical of the military because of the cause of Goose's death or was her asking Mav to not let Bradley fly purely out of her hurt for Goose's death and not a moral/political thing also. PS. I read your Slider fic and absolutely adored it

well… i think any attempt to flesh out Carole’s character is gonna be completely based on conjecture, because we’re not given more than “slightly naive Christian woman who doesn’t always say exactly the right thing.”

But I think it’s helpful to remember where she fits into the narrative at large, and why: Carole Bradshaw is the villain of the Top Gun franchise. Top Gun is her villain origin story.

The rhetorical purpose of the top gun franchise is: to make money, obv, AND to get people to join the navy. (to what extent it’s successful at achieving that latter goal is the topic of a different post… im certainly not the first to say it’s pretty easy to find an antimilitary reading of TG.) but if top gun is aiming to portray the navy as someplace you want to be, and someplace where you have to earn a spot to be (as I keep repeating over the last couple weeks, it’s all about honor), then Carole Bradshaw becomes the villain of the recruiting story of Top Gun: Maverick, because she (momentarily) prevented her son from joining the navy with the honor he thought he deserved, and she is to blame for the emotional through line of the entire movie. Thank God! we don’t have to blame maverick for fucking up and preventing Bradley from achieving his Dream Of Working As A US Military Contractor! we can blame his dead mom instead, so that maverick is still a good guy whom we, a moderately-conservative pro-navy target audience (🤑), can still root for & pay money to see.

so yeah narratively speaking she’s just a scapegoat. She has no agency in the story whatsoever, she’s only an object to receive blame. any backstory/reasoning/character we invent for her doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t really matter WHY she does it—whether she hates the military or not, narratively speaking we have to blame her just the same either way—it just matters that she does it. and then she has to immediately die so she can’t explain herself and maverick has to self-sacrificially take the blame. Because otherwise the plot of TGM wouldn’t happen, which would not achieve the rhetorical goals of making a bunch of money and getting kids to sign up for the navy.